They can’t do it, it has been asked quite few times in past years. Reason: servers only allow so many players on map, spectators also count as player so yeah….
More options wouldn’t fix anything if nothing is being done about reports. I understand they must get tons of reports and I guess not all can be reviewed but it’s discouraging when you see blatant violators keep violating with no consequences.
according to anet they get only 10 reports per day…. taken from reddit~
Just because you can’t ignore pets doesn’t mean they’re OP. Sorry they aren’t trash like they used to be. Get over it and learn to play.
Just because you skipped math doesnt mean you cant use a calculator to see the 2 new ones are simply overstated compared to other 30 pets. Sorry but their f2 abilities are also overperforming. Get over it and try to think of good balance.
Ps, wb henry
They’re not overperforming, every other pet is underperforming.
God forbid you actually have to pay attention to ranger pets now instead of just ignoring them.
What kind of nonsense is this? You always had to pay attention to the pet thanks to multiple CCs and bird hitting like truck.
I can see where the worry comes from. Thief would be a middle of the pack to top tier class if it wasn’t for how broken other classes are. A lot of those broken classes are getting nerfs along with amulet changes. Buffing thief on top of those changes is likely just going to make it a top tier class.
still get 1 shot by random aoe that is not even ment for them :P
You play vanilla d/p cynz so it is difficult for you. After a year playing s/d and now with daredevil staff I find it no issues with being revealed. If I am in trouble I will just short bow 5 away, high lvl if possible and ranged them for a bit.
Engi would make sence I mean they “could build a device” to reveal in pheaory, but rev? I don’t understand that 1
i am well aware of that but it is still not ok that 20 sec CD completely shuts down entire trait like and fair amount of utilities/weapon spells
Yesterday i faced mesmer in match that was using every single available hack in game. I reported him, opened ticket as well. Today i get same mesmer hacking around the map again. Do i need to make posts about muffins on reddit to get customer support attention?
what make sense is make ppl get legit something.
If you make it legit, you’ll won’t have trouble to make it again, else maybe you are one of thoose
^^this
every single good player i know that hit legend can easily reach it again w/o breaking sweat, many of them don’t even care about leagues that much, only about pro league
Well, i just had another guy afking on purpose so we lose game. He capped home, killed beast and went afk for the rest of the game telling us to enjoy pip los. He even encouraged us to report him because i think he is well aware that reporting atm does absolutely nothing.
I honestly don’t understand how can customer support allow that: this guy is literary showing middle finger to them and entire reporting system.
either dodge the animation or learn how to live for a few seconds out of stealth
6 sec revealed on thief is death sentence, try to live 6 sec w/o any passives/defensive spells for 6 sec, tell me how it went~
you can’t really dodge much since you already have to dodge all the hammer spells from scrapper and UA /AA from rev, besides gl seeing animation in massive aoe spam we have atm
there is literary no way to deal with 6 sec revealed, it is 100% hardcounter
you say dodge? well by that logic condi cleanse, blocks, invuls etc. shouldn’t exist in game since we can dodge!
How many rangers did you see in tournaments pre HOT? Yes, ranger were very strong in 1vs1. But that was all they were good at. And still not good enough to be desired in pro teams.
And overall (aoe/cleave) dmg was lower back then.
Rangers shouldn’t rely on broken stuff to be viable in tourneys. No class should.
Bad comparison. Bunker Druids don’t deal much dmg and glassier versions would be easier to kill.
I can totally understand the complains about bristleback and don’t like it either, but currently ranger is totally reliant on the pets for a reasonable amout of dmg output. Even if they would use an offensive build. Longbow gets countered by the high amount of projectile hate, blocks and los options. GS lacks sustained dmg and the burst is too easy to avoid. Sword has only aa as main dmg source, which hinders your ability to dogde. Condi builds aren’t a viable option too.
And reducing the pet’s survability would make them useless as long ranger has no real way to protect the pets. Don’t forget, the aren’t just additional minions, the are ranger’s class mechanic. Ranger are actually the only class, which can loose access to their mechanic for up to 60 seconds. Without reliable ways to prevent pet’s death in certain situations. That’s something no other class has to worry about.
Here is issue as stated before: ranger pet doesn’t scale with ranger stats hence why we have bunker druids with unkillable machine gun pets. I fail to see how it is anywhere balanced. Killing pet isn’t option, it is too tanky and druid can keep it alive for long time. Killing druid is also not an option, too tanky while pet almost 1 shots you.
What should happen. you want your pet do dmg? You have to run zerker/maradeur amy. If you run bunkery amulets, pet shouldn’t do much dmg. And all honestly i don’t understand whole qq about ranger pet being useless: pre xpac rangers were running bird/wolf and CCd people into oblivion, not to forget how much dmg said bird/wolf did.
Most moaning comes from mesmers anyway, i don’t understand why even. Yeah, thief had slight advantage over mes for a while but it was never as bad as guards hardcountering thieves for years.
Funny enough, if mes complains about thief, it is justified. If thief complains about guards or scrappers, it is st*u l2p.
I’m extremely entertained by the amount of poor spelling/grammar in this thread and that all of those that are calling for pet nerfs are the ones that can’t even give a reasonable explanation as to why it needs to be nerfed other than “it does too much damage, needs nerf.”
Plz a Net.mes does to much dmg,sometimes it on shots me even, this is unacceptble, and game braking. Pls nerf.
OK, imagine you fight thief. That thief has ability to split in 2, both of his version do same damage and are extremely hard to kill. Balanced?
1. mmr wasn’t reset even though anet promised to do – lies again
2. can’t lose divisions which promotes afking/mmr tanking etc.
3. exploiters didn’t get punished
4. afkers didn’t get punished
5. still have to sit in hotm for queue
6. soloq players still are forced to fight premades
7. absolutely horrendous meta and class balance, so many broken spells and traits and all for the sake of selling HoT…
8. 50% w/l algorithm is still in game while system punishes you with pip los on top of it
9. thieves get verbally abused 99% of the matches and customer support doesn’t even move a finger to punish such wide spreaded player griefing (best joke, someone from anet said on reddit they get like 10 reports per day……… OK…..)
All this for lovely 50 euro~
Good things: errr…. i can spam vial of salt in chat :|
Usually the thief does a lot like decapping and roaming but somehow gets blamed for losing even though those very people would run and die 3v1 or 3v2 at mid.
I think this is a part of it. Thieves tend to go far and run around. Leaving their team -1. When their team wipes, they rage thinking that they were playing fine and the rest of the team sucks. Even if they win far, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they should have gone there.
Decapping and roaming give bad players an inflated perception of their performance in a game.
regardless wether thief is decapping or not players shouldn’t be running in 1v3 fights and i see it a lot actually…
If a cook in restaurant poisons the food so customers become ill all the time (or just cooks crappy food generally), he will get fired. At Anet however……..
We really need reporting options for afk and hacking. I do not believe that reporting for botting does anything. The notorious afker necro is living proof that reporting atm does absolutely nothing.
Why other classes starts pvp games at 100% of their power, but necromancer starts with 0 life force?
because other classes have to set up their combos during the fight (example mesmer)
not to mention war doesn’t even have adrenaline unless they are in combat
Well i main thief, i never afk (unless i dc obviously). When i played other classes i never had thieves afk either so idk. From my experience usually FOTM rerollers afk a lot.
D/P 3 needs an init cost increase, a cast time increase, or a damage reduction (or a combination thereof)
So in that vein, D/P does need nerfed and other weapon sets buffed as well to allow for a more equal field amongst the weapons.
This however is assuming the other professions are nerfed/changed as well as to not completely push Thief out of viability.
If I lose, that is when I take a break, if I win, I continue until I lose. But I don’t know about that algorithm.
You’re on the opposite end of the stick. Match Making is always in your favour. See the screen for an even better example of the power of luck in solo queue.
If you win by more than 200 points, the match was likely in your favour from the start. I won a match 500 to 17 in solo ranked yesterday and only gained 1 pip.
Congrats. I haven’t been able to get past tier 5 ruby. When I do break into tier 6 I am paired against a team that slaughters me. Part of this is a personal issue, but part of it is the system. I honestly don’t even know why I’m trying anymore. I take breaks when I lose and come back and get completely out-matched or on a team that needs 4 people to kill one person.
For whatever reason, this seems to happen to EVERYONE, the last stretch of Ruby (t5 and 6) puts everyone through the gauntlet, It took me weeks to get my last 3 pips into diamond.
It is once I reached diamond that it became smooth sailing. Maybe they !$@#ed something up for Ruby match making. But this was also prior to the “smurfing” patch that it gave me trouble.
Not really, i got through last tier of ruby within few games. Ruby tier1-2 (wow apparently just using t for tier is against forum rules and gets censored????) and sapphire were real pain for some reason though.
Would apology really do anything tho? Besides why would they apologize? Hot is success apparently and they didn’t force you to play the game.
Not saying that leagues or current class balance are fine (i switched to bns and pretty much quit gw2) but let’s be realistic here – they do not care about us. They made profit and that’s fine with them.
You can grind all you want, you need skill to get to diamond ( ele, mesmer, druid are not counted in my eyes, they will be counted in season 2 )
lol, no you don’t
not saying i am horrendous player but i am close to legend now and i play vanilla dp thief which is anything but meta right now (note i didn’t pvp till xmas due to frustration with xpac and state of thief) + i get players in matches (enemy team as well) that even are in legendary divisions and are really… bad O_O
leagues are really nothing but a grind, even if you can’t carry you will be eventually carried there, given time
Mesmer burst is more than fine, they were already extremely strong pre HoT. Also, taking current meta into consideration is stupid because every class will change and bunker meta generally will be toned down by a lot due to amulet removal. I honestly wouldn#t be surprised if mesmer ends up stun lock nuking everyone left and right again, like pre HoT.
Also, why would mesmer need sustain? They have invuls/stealth/blocks/blurr/CC spam – plenty of tools to set up another burst.
DPS=/=Burst
Did you even read what i wrote?
In the particular post i adressed to you wrote that mesmer burst is more than fine as a reply to an OT about mesmer dps/sustained damage.
It would be odd if they did. The message this would send out is if you exploit and game our system we will reward you for it, and if you don’t and play how we intended..then too bad.
yeah, they already rewarded exploiters by not punishing them in any way
Mesmer burst is more than fine, they were already extremely strong pre HoT. Also, taking current meta into consideration is stupid because every class will change and bunker meta generally will be toned down by a lot due to amulet removal. I honestly wouldn#t be surprised if mesmer ends up stun lock nuking everyone left and right again, like pre HoT.
Also, why would mesmer need sustain? They have invuls/stealth/blocks/blurr/CC spam – plenty of tools to set up another burst.
